Calf-weaner.



v PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907. o. B. CUNNINGHAM & J. E. GRIFFITH.

GALF WEANBR. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, 190B.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

OLIE E. CUNNINGHAM AND JAMES E. GRIFFITH, OF CARROLL, IOWA.

GALF-WEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OLIE E. CUNNINGHAM and JAMES E. GRIFFITH, citizens of the United States, residing at Carroll, in the county. of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Calf-Weaners, of which the following is a specification.

Our object is to provide an improved manner of constructing a calf-weaner adapted to be suspended on a calf to cover its nose when its head is lifted as required to prevent the calf from sucking a cow and the frame adapted to contact with the ground when the head is lowered as required to elevate the weaner relative to the ground so the calf can eat grass while wearing the weaner.

Our invention consists in the construction, arrangement and sub-combination of elements as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in our claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the rigid frame and the adjustable links pivotally connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the complete device ready for practical use.

The numeral 10 designates the base of the frame made of a single piece of heavy wire, bent into the form of an elongated ellipse and the ends of the Wire terminate in hooks 12 that are permanently connected as shown in Fig. 1, or in any suitable Way as required to produce a rigid frame. The front end of this base is adapted to swing over the nose of the calf and the rear end inclines downward.

A second wire, 13, is bent into semi-circular shape and provided with coils 14, near its ends and the ends terminate in hooks 15, that are fixed to the wire 10 at the central portion of the frame.

A third wire 16 of semi-circular form has coils 17 at its ends that clasp the wires 10 and 13, as shown in Fig. 1, to serve as a central brace as required to complete the rigid frame made of the three heavy wires.

Metal links 18 are made complete of single pieces of lighter wire than the frame and their lower ends are pivotally connected with the coils 14 of the wire 13 and their upper end portions are bent around the wire 13 and into elongated loops 19 and then bent at right angles and around the upper parallel parts of the links as required to adjustably connect the upper parts of the links with the wire 13 in such a manner that the links can vibrate in vertical and also horizontal planes and the coils 14 will be the center of motion of the complete device, relative to a calfs nose, when it is suspended over the nose by leather straps fixed to the pivoted links 18.

Light wires 20 are woven together and their ends bent around and fastened to the frame wires 10, 13 and 16 as shown in Fig. 2, or in any suitable way as required to cover a calfs nose. 4

The woven wires 20 nearest the frame wire 13, terminate above the links 18 as required to allow vertical vibration of the links as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

A leather strap 21 having a buckle at one end is adjustably connected with the links and adapted to be fitted over the head of a calf and a second strap 22 is fixed to the strap 21 to surround the underside of the calfs neck as required to securely and detachably fasten the muzzle to the calf.

In practical use when the muzzle'is on a calf and the calf attempts to reach a cows udder the wire covered portion of the frame will, by force of gravity, drop down over the calfs nose and mouth and prevent it from sucking the cow and when the calf drops its head to eat grass the rear part of the frame wire 10 will strike the ground and lift the front part of the muzzle above the calfs mouth as required to let the calf feed from the ground.

- Having thus set forth the purposes of our invention and the manner of its construction and use the practical operation and utility thereof will be obvious.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is.

1. In a calf weaner, a rigid frame composed of a wire bent into the form of an ellipse as shown, a second wire bent into semicircular form and its ends attached between the ends of the elliptical frame and provided with coils near its ends, a third wire fixed to the first and second wires and elongated links pivotally connected at their lower ends with said coils in the second wire and with the same above the coils by loops, as set forth.

2. A calf weaner comprising a rigid frame composed of a wire bent into the form of an ellipse as shown, a second wire bent into the form of a semicircle and its ends fastened to the frame and provided with coils near its ends, a third wire fixed to the first and second wires, elongated links pivotally connected with the coils in the second wire and provided with elongated loops at their upper sides and connected with the second wire to adjust vertically and horizontally and means to hang the device on a calfs nose.

3. A calf weaner comprising a rigid frame composed of a wire bent into the form of an ellipse, a second wire fastended to the said elliptical frame and provided with coils near its ends, a third wirc curved and fixed to the said elliptical frame and to the top and center of the second wire, the frame covered with Woven wire, elongated links pivotally connected with the upright portions of the second wire to adjust horizontally and vertically and straps connected with the links to operate as set forth.

OLIE E. CUNNINGHAM. JAMES E. GRIFFITH. Witnesses It. E. COBURN, N. L. CULBERTSON. 

